/*
 * chombo: Hadoop Map Reduce utility
 * Author: Pranab Ghosh
 * 
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you
 * may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may
 * obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
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 */

package org.chombo.stats;

import java.util.List;

import org.chombo.util.BasicUtils;
import org.chombo.util.TypedObject;

/**
 * @author pranab
 *
 */
public class UniformStringSampler extends UniformSampler {
	private List<String> values;
	
	/**
	 * @param values
	 */
	public UniformStringSampler(List<String> values) {
		super();
		this.values = values;
	}

	@Override
	public TypedObject sample() {
		String sampled = BasicUtils.selectRandom(values);
		return new TypedObject(sampled);
	}

}
